Looks like the whiplash has even reached self-righteous Massachusetts.
DeLeo’s budget would curb labor
House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, setting up a major fight with unions, proposed yesterday to strip local public employees of most of their rights to bargain over health care, as part of a $30.5 billion annual state budget that imposes the largest year-to-year spending cut in two decades.
Not be part of the gambling workers unions.
Related:
Menino, unions in health accord
Boston’s labor leaders signed an unprecedented agreement with Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday that will require municipal workers to pay $70 million more for their health insurance over the next four years and deliver substantial savings to the city as early as June.
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Towns to Pay Health Tax For Public Servants
A Healthy Insult For the American People
I don't want to take anyone's health care away (I wanted single-payer, remember) because we can pay for it all. Just end the damn wars.
